There are a number of excellent contemporary teachers/theologians referenced in this web site - i.e., Wayne Grudem, John Piper, Tim Keller, etc.

Another one that I am increasingly impressed with is NT Wright a leading British New Testatment scholar. (I was intrigued to note Wikipedia says, “within evangelicalism, Wright has been warmly received particularly by those who identify with the postmodern Emerging Church movement. “ Hey … that’s me!)

My introduction to him was when I read his Resurrection of the Son of God a couple of years ago - a monumental 800 page work that is the single best book I have yet read on the subject of resurrection. I have purchased two more of his books to read, including his Evil and the Justice of God.

A god place to start is his 16-page article on The Bible For The Postmodern World. Here’s an extract …

“The biblical eschatology challenges all such rival eschatologies, with the strange news that world history actually reached its climax in the first century, in the Middle East, with the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the Jewish Messiah, the Lord of the world. This is of course found by many today to be quite incredible, but this has always been because of the presence of rival and powerful countereschatologies. Now that these have collapsed or are collapsing, it is up to those who read the Bible and take it seriously to set about living by its eschatological message and so forming the community that cannot be deconstructed, because it is a community of love. This leads me to the final, and climactic, things I want to say …

… I have suggested, in other words, that it is our task not just to tell but to live out the story; that the model of God’s self-giving love in creation, covenant, judgment, mercy, incarnation, atonement, resurrection, wind and fire, and ultimately recreation must be the basis for our self-understanding, our life, and our vocation. And when we do this, we discover, I believe, that the reality of which we are dimly aware, but which our ontologies, pre-modern, modern and postmodern find slipping through their fingers, is best described in the biblical language of heaven and earth, created, sustained, redeemed and to be renewed by the living God known in Jesus and in the Spirit.”

I encourage you to explore some of his stuff. You can find more information on this contemporary scholar here.

Bob
Fides Qauerens Intellectum
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Bob Pratico
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
(my Sojourn blog)